Registration is now open for Movement in/and/of the City, Kent, June 16

The programme is now available for Movement in/and/of the City, a postgraduate conference to be held at the University of Kent on 16 June.

About the conference

The notion of ‘movement’ has particular pertinence to our present cultural moment: across the globe, we live in a period marked both by unprecedented movements of population and by new popular political movements of all types. Yet the idea of ‘movement’ as a literary preoccupation is as old as the earliest recorded literature itself, defining the quest/journey narratives of the ancient world. Movement can be conceived on the grandest geological or even planetary spatial and temporal scale, but by the same token is also perceived daily and personally in the individual human body.